Sunny Hills High School
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Troy High School → Valencia High School → Anaheim High School → Fullerton Union High School → LA Serna High School → Compare all similar →Enrollment trend & projection
If this trend holds (+0.5%/yr, Total enrollment)
At per-pupil funding of $ / student:
| Horizon | Projected Total enrollment | Change | Funding impact / yr |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 yr (2027) | ~2,357 | +13 | $0 |
| 3 yr (2029) | ~2,383 | +39 | $0 |
| 5 yr (2031) | ~2,409 | +65 | $0 |
Straight-line extrapolation of the recent annual rate — a what-if, not a forecast of intent. Default = California's LCFF base grant for grades 9–12 ($12,423/ADA). Edit the figure to match your school.
Enrollment stability & demand — 2024-25
Two complementary signals: retention (do students stay once enrolled?) and demand (are families choosing the school?). Read against the Orange County baseline — the demographic tide is moving every CA HS, so a school's gap vs. county is the actionable signal.
Sunny Hills High School outperformed Orange County on enrollment (school +3.7% vs. county -7.1%) AND maintains 95.5% stability. Replicable model — worth documenting what's working.
109 of 2,397 students who enrolled at Sunny Hills High School this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (4.5% non-stability). Mid-year transfers, dropouts, and other exits are all counted.
Stability by student group
Nearest peer high schools
Source: California Department of Education, Stability Rate 2024-25. Benchmarks limited to non-virtual public & charter HS with ≥100 cumulative enrollees so by-design-high-churn continuation schools don't dominate the bottom of the distribution. Cumulative enrollment counts every student on the rolls during the year, so it can exceed peak-day enrollment.
Chronic absenteeism — 2024-25
Share of students missing 10% or more of expected attendance — the leading indicator that often precedes the demand decline shown above. Families disengaging tend to raise absenteeism first, then formally leave. Basis: grades 9–12.
Absenteeism is up 7.5 pp since 2016-17. A rising absenteeism trend often precedes formal departure — worth investigating which subgroups are driving it.
Source: California Department of Education, Chronic Absenteeism 2024-25. Benchmarks limited to non-virtual public & charter HS with ≥100 eligible students. CDE didn't publish a usable 2019-20 file (COVID).
SBAC academic outcomes — grade 11, 2025
Share of grade-11 students meeting or exceeding the California standard on Smarter Balanced ELA and Math. This is the academic-readiness signal that pairs with UC Reach (post-grad outcomes), stability (retention), and absenteeism (engagement). Note: statewide median Math is only ~20% — a school at 20% isn't an outlier; one at 45%+ genuinely is.
Source: California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress (CAASPP) Smarter Balanced research files. Benchmarks limited to non-virtual public & charter HS with ≥30 tested students.
Student composition — 2025-26
HS grades 9–12 racial/ethnic composition and program subgroups, from CDE Census Day Enrollment. Two-year shift shown when ≥1 pt — surfaces how the community served has changed since 2023-24.
Race / ethnicity
Program subgroups
Source: California Department of Education, Census Day Enrollment 2025-26 (HS grades 9–12). Δ shown when shift is ≥1 pt since 2023-24. Categories below 0.5% omitted.
District financial profile — Fullerton Joint Union High (FY2020)
From 4 years of NCES F-33 filings (the federally-mandated district finance survey). Public schools don't have their own books — the district does. These figures show the financial scale, revenue dependence, instruction-vs-overhead mix, and long-term debt that shape what a school can sustain.
Local: 46.8%
Federal: 9.4%
Source: NCES F-33 Annual Survey of School System Finances (Urban Institute Education Data API). Latest year currently published: FY2020. F-33 is a district-level federal filing — it reflects the Fullerton Joint Union High as a whole, not this individual school's books. Revenue mix shows where the district's dollars come from (state aid dominates in CA via LCFF). Instruction share is current expenditure on instruction ÷ total current expenditure (national benchmark ~60%). Long-term debt is end-of-year outstanding (mostly facilities bonds).
+33.8 pp above peer median (19.5%) · Ranked #2 of 11 similar schools
18.5%
53.3%
53.3%
Higher than 90% of California high schools (1105 ranked, ≥50 seniors)
Sunny Hills High School's UC Reach of 53.3% clears the statewide top-10% cutoff (53.3%) — meaning roughly 53 top-6 UC admits per 100 seniors, well above what most California schools achieve.
For context, the elite tier (top 1%) clears 102.7% — a gap of 49 pp from where this school sits.
Overall, Sunny Hills High School's UC Reach is higher than 90% of California high schools (1105 ranked).
Sunny Hills High School — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot
Public · Fullerton · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools
- ▸On UC Reach, Sunny Hills High School sits near the top of its similar-school group (ranked #2 of 11): 53% vs. a peer median of 20%.
- ▸Its UC Reach has risen 16 points since 2018.
- ▸Senior-class enrollment is up 4% (575→596 from 2018 to 2026), outpacing the peer-group median of -11%.
- ▸Enrollment has been growing (+0.5%/yr); projects to ~2383 by 2029.
Enrollment projection
Your school vs. its 10 most similar nearby schools
| School | Type | Size | UC Reach | Enroll. trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sunny Hills High School | Public | 2344 | 53.3% | +4% |
| Peer-group median | 19.5% | -11% | ||
| Troy High School | Public | 2422 | 71.6% | -16% |
| Valencia High School | Public | 2242 | 27.8% | -6% |
| Anaheim High School | Public | 2604 | 18.2% | -21% |
| Fullerton Union High School | Public | 1921 | 20.9% | -13% |
| LA Serna High School | Public | 2432 | 16.6% | -15% |
| California High | Public | 2263 | 12.5% | -8% |
| Katella High School | Public | 2168 | 11.3% | -20% |
| Cypress High School | Public | 2548 | 30.5% | -2% |
| El Dorado High School | Public | 2054 | 22.4% | +12% |
| LA Habra High School | Public | 1841 | 9.6% | -9% |
UC Reach = top-6 UC admits ÷ senior class (can exceed 100% when students are admitted to multiple campuses). Enrollment trend = first-to-latest grade-12 change on file. Similar schools matched on proximity, size, type. Methodology →
Admit rate vs. CA peer average, by campus ⓘ
How does this school's admit rate at each UC compare to other CA schools whose applicant pool averages the same GPA?
| Campus | Applicant GPA (avg) | Actual admit rate | CA peer avg | Δ | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UC Berkeley | 4.01 | 17.5% | 12.7% | +4.8pp | On target |
| UCLA | 3.94 | 8.9% | 9.1% | -0.1pp | On target |
| UC San Diego | 3.93 | 24.0% | 21.6% | +2.4pp | On target |
| UC Santa Barbara | 3.93 | 31.5% | 29.5% | +2.0pp | On target |
| UC Irvine | 3.89 | 26.4% | 22.5% | +3.8pp | On target |
| UC Davis | 3.91 | 46.8% | 32.3% | +14.5pp | Over |
Where Sunny Hills High School sits vs. all California schools ⓘ
Overall, this school admits its UC applicants in line with what their GPAs predict (25.0% actual vs. 21.0% expected).
UC Outcomes Trend — 2018–2025
Class size from CDE grade 12 enrollment. Campus-level data — applicant/admit totals may count a student at multiple campuses more than once.
Campus Breakdown — 2025
| Campus | Applicants | Admits | Enrollees | Admit Rate | UC Reach | Yield | Avg GPA (App) | Avg GPA (Adm) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UC Berkeley → Elite | 177 | 31 | 15 | 17.5% | 5.0% | 48.4% | 4.01 | 4.24 |
| UCLA → Elite | 235 | 21 | 14 | 8.9% | 3.4% | 66.7% | 3.94 | 4.27 |
| UC San Diego → Selective | 250 | 60 | 20 | 24.0% | 9.8% | 33.3% | 3.93 | 4.26 |
| UC Santa Barbara → Selective | 200 | 63 | 7 | 31.5% | 10.3% | 11.1% | 3.93 | 4.27 |
| UC Irvine → Selective | 273 | 72 | 20 | 26.4% | 11.7% | 27.8% | 3.89 | 4.22 |
| UC Davis → | 171 | 80 | 10 | 46.8% | 13.0% | 12.5% | 3.91 | 4.18 |